DisplayLink is dying due to high DDR prices. Dock companies are cancelling their display link portfolios due to the unfavorable economics.

Good riddance if this is how OSS is treated by synaptics.

Most recent thunderbolt docks and usb4 docks have good display support, and fallback to DisplayPort alt mode if the host does not support tbt4. Which is much better supported over type-c. Intel and AMD upstream host support.

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aboardRat4 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I just run vnc on an android tablet to use it as a monitor.

I didn't find a way to attach two "monitors" to my X screen in this way, but I guess it's doable.

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hypercube33 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And rather poor support from Apple if I may say so. It's hit or miss if everything works on a MacBook unless you have a thunderbolt 4 and pro edition.

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j45 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How much ram does DisplayLink use?

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paimapi 5 hours ago | parent [-]

On my computer around 500 MB for two additional 4K monitors but I've heard up to 1 GB. With the RAM crunch, running DL + Docker + browser (esp Chrome), it gets pretty laggy sometimes.

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j45 3 hours ago | parent [-]

What percentage does one gigabyte of RAM represent across the average amount of RAM in a laptop or computer? People who run multiple screens might spend more on RAM and storage, no?

	▲	DuncanCoffee 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		500€ for 32 GB or ram is a stupid price no matter how many displays you own